Records: [NES PAL] A-Type

Due to significant physics differences between the NTSC/PAL versions of the game, this thread is for PAL only. (Playing on a North American copy of the game? Head on over to the NTSC NES scores thread.)

Play A-Type starting from any level, no scoring glitches (e.g. start with a free tetris, etc.) or debug features.

Hello everyone,
Great to see this forum so active! Haven't introduced myself yet, but I'm Niels and my family has played Tetris a lot in the early ninetees, (gameboy) and a few weeks ago I took out my old NES, went to the retro gaming store and started playing NES Tetris after seeing the movie. I managed to squeeze out a 374300 last week on the PAL version, starting on level 13 (similar to level 18 ntsc speed), pretty quickly messing up when I got to level 16 (similar to level 19 speeds ntsc). I can definitely Tetris a few times before I would have the number of lines that would have me reach level 19 when Im practicing and start on level 16, so I am now starting to wonder what is actually possible on the PAL version.

So I have a few questions. 1. who is Jani? 2. If I read it correctly and the highest recorded 'transition' to 19 on the ntsc version is 600K-high (read that in another thread) isn't that likely to be about PAL's high-score, or did jani just stack up and tetrised twice after reaching 600K high on PAL 19 or something? (19 is really unplayable, as far as I can estimate)
3. Does anyone know of an overview of PAL high-scores? Of course I'll try to beat the score in the video (526K) but the 716 would be a significantly harder nut to crack

Thanks in advance for the info, looking forward to talk tetris here the coming time!

At the latest I can do at level 13 as good as no more "Tetris", because I have to be at the bottom for level 16. There it is getting too fast for me, so I only can break down individual lines on the way to level 19.

At the latest I can do at level 13 as good as no more "Tetris", because I have to be at the bottom for level 16. There it is getting too fast for me, so I only can break down individual lines on the way to level 19.

Does anyone have a suggestion for improvement or training?

P.S.: Sorry for my bad english, google helps me

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From your message I think I understand that you don't know this yet: if you hold A when you press start when choosing a level, you start 10 levels higher. So you can practice level 16-18 by selecting level 8, hold A and press start! And: nice games!

That is very good. Maybe she is the second best PAL tetris player in the world. At least I don´t know other players. Over 600 000 is magic results. I have two times reached 700 000 magic limit. Maybe I will never get that again but It is a work in progress.

The score bug I had in mind: soft reset (A+B+Select+Start) the game during the line disappearing animation (e.g., flashing screen for a tetris). Start another game and you earn those points for free when you place the first piece. (This video isn't the best demonstration, but if you watch this you can see he earns 771 points for dropping the first block. You can do the same thing for a tetris.)

The PAL version also has a leftover cheat that the programmers used when testing the game. This cheat makes scoring 999,999 very easy. I won't say what it is, but, if you do find it, I think it goes without saying that it cannot be used for scores submitted here.

I trust that I don't need to outright require video submissions for every single score entry to verify cheats are not used, but I might start asking for video if someone decides it would be funny to abuse that trust.

That is very good. Maybe she is the second best PAL tetris player in the world. At least I don´t know other players. Over 600 000 is magic results. I have two times reached 700 000 magic limit. Maybe I will never get that again but It is a work in progress.

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Hey Jani! good to see you in person in the PAL thread, heard a lot about you!